Statement

Stemming from an initial documentary approach, Anton is a multidisciplinary visual artist concerned by the limits of understanding, the difficulties of representing trauma, loss of the experience of place, and the act of commemoration.

Using primarily abstracted and deconstructed photographic and visual representation, his focus lies on investigating other ways of seeing, the mechanisms of memory and remembrance, and the significance of viewer placement and subject-position.

Short biography

Anton was born in Belgium (1974), and obtained a master's degree in Political Science at K.U.Leuven (Belgium).

Together with friend and mentor David Alan Harvey he founded BURN Magazine, an award-winning online platform dedicated to emerging photographers. Together with Diego Orlando and Harvey he runs the yearly Emerging Photographer Fund, which awards $10,000 + $5,000 to emerging photographers to continue or complete a photographic project.

His work has been featured in The Sunday Times Magazine, New York Times, l'Espresso, GEO magazine, TEDx, El Pais, BBC, The Economist, BBC Radio 4, Leica M Magazine, dS Weekblad (De Standaard), Dagens Næringsliv, Cobra.be, De Laatste Show, VOP Taiwan, The Japan Times, ELLE Men, Marie Claire, BURN Magazine, Status Brazil and City to City China, amongst others.

He is currently working on several projects and collaborations: The Blue Skies Project, Caduta Massi, Weight/Carry, and On Your Shoulders We Stand. The online epistolary #image_by_image with fellow photographer Ivan Sigal is an experimental public dialogue that aims to enliven the consideration of photos in social media, and to rebut the assertion that they are necessarily one-dimensional pictograms. It is a way of exploring meaning in dialogue with concepts and our shifting understanding of them across time and history.